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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

- John Donne | Aging and Old Age Quotes

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death thou shalt die.

- John Donne | Death and Dying Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.

- John Donne | Death and Dying Quotes

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne | Death and Dying Quotes

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne | Loneliness Quotes

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so.

- John Donne | Love Quotes

Love, all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.

- John Donne | Love Quotes

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

- John Donne | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

- John Donne | Morality and Ethics Quotes

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

- John Donne | Reason Quotes

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

- John Donne | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

- John Donne | Words and Language Quotes

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

- John Donne | Faith and Unity Quotes

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

- John Donne | Prayer Quotes

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

- John Donne | Self-Reliance Quotes

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendered.

- John Donne | Courage Quotes

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- John Donne | Heartbreak Quotes

All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

- John Donne | True Love Quotes

If yet I have not all thy love, love Dear, I shall never have it all.

- John Donne | Love Quotes